British Troops - Have You News Of My Boy Jack?

[Goldengirl19601]

To you we owe this, and every other free voice. Thank you.

[Sidslotm]

the tide brought my son back to me, thank God

[macbrack04]

Beautiful and sad....in memory of Trooper Brackenbury  killed in Iraq........aged 19 years.

[lexie2795]

im an american and have a very deep respect for the british troops as of all our allies so i will thank all of our allies for joining and serving there country's militay

[smikestack]

Who is the reader?  Please let me know.

[Sentenashi]

David Haig really was perfect for that role.

[CaptGolightly]

Thank you. Kipling never recovered from the guilt he felt over his earlier jingoism and his part in sending off his boy, and many others, to be part of it all. The one rather weak compensation he could find was that his boy had not "shamed his kind"...weak because that was never in doubt in his mind from the moment his boy first stood upright. Very true and very beautiful..thanks again.

[CaptGolightly]

@CaptGolightly I should say here that I think he may have been too harsh upon himself...WWI was the precursor of WWII in that Germany was already in the grip of social Darwinism..euthanasia of the "weak" and survival of the fittest etc. etc. and so it really was a threat to "civilised" values and had to be contained.

[dustyRN]

Good effort..just made a link to facebook and will be sharing it with the Royal Navy Reservists who are mobilised in Afghan today .

[theblackmafia71]

This is a fantastic upload 

[vilhelm999]

@theblackmafia71 Cheers man!

[MadMac2236]

A poem written by a US soldier after he survived the D-Day landings on Omaha Beach;

When I get to the gates of Heaven,

To St. Peter I will tell,

One more soldier reporting sir,

I've done my time in hell!

[irishlight42]

I'm a U.S. Army Cadet leaving for LDAC tomorrow, graduating from college and commissioning in a bit less than a year, and this video and this poem are particularly special to me for two reasons....

1. Because of the friends I have in the British Army, whom I've always felt a kinship to, because of the things we hold dear.

2. Because of my father, who was never keen on me going in the Army, I want to yet feel as much pride as he does sorrow if I should ever not come back from a war.

[TaffyBoy]

Nice video! I love this job!!

[britishfetishman101]

just to let you know the soldiers at 0:53 are not british they are canadian , just saying because i recognize that footage from the Canadian combat camera account, by the way well made video

[spursloyal71]

Fuck me this is a good upload ! better than that shite John Lewis one anyway!

[iceblitzyt]

God bless our boys

[ollie272]

makes me wanna cry. wish people had more brains and realized how much we owe our boys in ganners

[danielmurray923]

cry havoc..., and let slip the dogs of war.

[1975Abi]

That brought tears to my eyes.

Safe home lads

[TrooperLFC]

this is the stuff of legends.

[vilhelm999]

Thanks alot man, cheers for the other comment as well. Means alot.

[SamDorman92]

i go in the army next year , i passed selection this year .

god bless the troops ! .

[wedieinwar]

this poem is so fiting to the vid but unfortnatly i did sufer the gratest pain and lost my uncual to the war an ied hit his viking and he diead saveing the driver........

i hope all the rest of our troops out there come home so none eles has to go throu what i did GOOD BLESS AND GOOD PROTECT.....

[adeel256]

I wouldn't be surpized if an Afghan father in his little village is repeating a dari version of this poem.

What an insane creature man is.

[vilhelm999]

Very true.

[jamesjnr67]

come home safe chaps

[TheBreadCrumbs]

Jack will come back after he kick some insurgents' bootycracks.

[wiganjoe]

the wind and tide one day WILL bring back Jack

[Manelis66]

Beautiful if not a bit sad...

[Tankballer]

This video had quite an effect on me, good job.

[PGF59]

I never knew what fear was until I found that my brother William was going to Iraq, thankfully I did not have to suffer the worse pain of loss .and he came home safely.

God bless our troops who are fighting and sacrificing so much for us.

Tnxs for the video and the tribute.

[ballet1863]

excellent video. very beautiful and fittng to the cause. though it is sad, it is a wonderful tribute to all the boys fighting for freedom and righteousness. God bless the troops and their families!

[flowerpotangel]

good clip, come home soon ...

[robolfc300]

its a poem

[thegames99]

what this song?

[vilhelm999]

I'm not sure how you came to the idea that this is a song mate but regardless it's in the description =D ------>

[robolfc300]

keep ye heads down come home safe

[maristeladefatima]

Jack is now in Iraq...

[hippowithnoodles4444]

great tibute, us americans are thankful for the help of Britain

[biblegirl]

Greta job. I'm an American myself and I couldn't be prouder of my nation's troops, my boy friend's in the Army. But I'm also grateful for every nation that has stood by mine and all of their troops, British troops are deffently included

[britishval]

I'ma french canadian and arrived in UK (for a year) in October. So I saw the movie My Boy Jack on TV on remeberance day. It was the first time I was earing that poem. It brought me to tears!

[nolelox]

Powerful......bless um all

[lifter1545]

Great video. I wish the rest of your countrymen felt the same as you.

[kurwiszoneq]

nice video 5/5

[ihatefranceandameric]

david haig reading it, is the best bit

[ihatefranceandameric]

perfect

[Imiana]

Hey do you have the actual footage of David Haig reading this. I've been looking for it for ages and this is the closest I can get.

[lorr2406]

another great video on behalf of all the army wives out there thank you for sharing keep up the good work praying for safe return of all our amazing troops

[fox579]

Nice Tribute.

God bless Tommy Atkins, then & now.

[fox579]

Nice tribute.

God bless Tommy Atkins, then & now.

[Linkinparkdude7]

on the description thingy you said you were makin more does that mean more with music or more with poems? Btw i really like this vid, 5stars and my favs :)